Topical Budget Company Movies

The Valentine's card, 1920s-style. Two British actresses put lips to paper in a demonstration of the so-called "Kiss Valentine", leaving a lipstick...

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

Battered, bandaged and playing croquet on crutches, wounded First World War soldiers get a break from the Western Front.

Lunch on the Eiffel Tower held in honour of the visit of the representatives of foreign municipalities.

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.

The British Fascist movement holds a 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square the day before Remembrance Sunday.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Druids, Romans and Norman knights return to Richmond for the 600th anniversary of the Yorkshire town's charter.

Private Daly of the Connaught Rangers triumphs in the Aldershot Command annual cross country race, months before the outbreak of WWI.

Feathered friends prepare to meet their fate in this seasonal newsreel outing to a Norfolk turkey farm.

Rheumatic soldiers are treated with the latest in hydrotherapy at the Devonshire Hospital in Buxton, Derbyshire.

Retired nags enjoy a well-earned New Year's feed at the Cricklewood Home of Rest for Horses.

The start of the fox hunting season with the Cattistock Hunt in Maiden Newton, Dorset.

Dashing through the snow; on a six-horse open plough... The streets are ready for sledging in 1920s Buxton.